After Andrew Dice Clay's manager sent that fateful e-mail, Dice said: "We get a call. Bradley Cooper wants to sit with me. And all I talked about were my sons, for three hours, we're sitting there." The second meet-up seemingly went as well as the first because the next day, Cooper texted Dice, inviting him to meet the film's leading lady, Lady Gaga, in the recording studio.
Dice recalled talking to Lady Gaga about life on the road, recounting his own experience as a traveling comedian. The "Poker Face" singer told him she was acutely aware of his career thanks to her father, Joey Germanotta, who was a big fan of Dice's. The comedian — who had experience as a gigging drummer dating back to the 1970s — even sat in on the kit for one of the songs Lady Gaga was tracking at the studio.
"As this is happening, here comes Cooper, watching this. And he says, "Let's go in another studio, just the three of us.' So, he goes, 'Alright, Dice, I just want to try some scenes.' I go, 'Bradley, I haven't read the script yet. It's a thick script,'" Dice recalled on Chris DiStefano's podcast. Despite his hesitations, Dice said the scenes went off without a hitch.
